Anchored by the hot mount on Newmarket Handicap fancy Graff for Kris Lees, Pike's day will now see him feature in both Group Ones on the card after he secured the ride on the enigmatic, and very in-form, galloper So Si Bon for Lindsay Park in the $1.5 million Australian Cup (2000m).

Fittingly, Pike has also secured a ride in the last on the card - with the gun jockey famed for his exploits in the 'Get-Out Stakes', often bailing out punters on the Eastern seaboard by winning the last at Ascot.

On Saturday, he's riding the Tony McEvoy-trained Bring Me Roses in the Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m) - registered as the Matron Stakes - drawing the outside barrier in the field of 13.